19 Feb Top 100 Truck Bottlenecks: 2020 ATRI Ranking Has Familiar Choke Points This is one ranking where you probably don't want to repeat as champion, but for the second year in a row, the approach to the George Washington Bridge heading into New York from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River is being cited as the nation's worst truck bottleneck. Read more...
18 Feb Make Infrastructure Great Now, Surface Transportation in a Few Months President Donald Trump’s infrastructure directive explained in his fiscal 2021 budget to Congress is about urgency. The time to act is now. Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
18 Feb Trump Plan: Make Infrastructure Great Now, Surface Transportation in a Few Months President Donald Trump’s infrastructure directive explained in his fiscal 2021 budget to Congress is about urgency. The time to act is now. Here's your Capitol Agenda look at the week ahead for trucking on Capitol Hill. Read more...
18 Feb Diesel Declines 2¢ a Gallon to $2.89 The price of diesel fuel declined by 2 cents a gallon nationally Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Read more...
18 Feb Oil Stalls After Rosneft Sanctions Offset Virus-Led Demand Fears Oil ended the session Feb. 18 flat after U.S. sanctions on Russia’s largest oil producer helped to erase losses driven by lingering concerns that coronavirus will cut demand. Read more...
18 Feb Rep. Sam Graves Highlights Push to Streamline Permitting Process Policies aimed at expediting the permitting process related to big-ticket infrastructure projects would enhance connectivity along freight and commuter networks, Rep. Sam Graves, the top Republican on the House transportation panel, recently indicated. Read more...
18 Feb Nikola’s Badger Pickup Truck Touts 600-Mile Range Nikola Corp. announced a plan to build an electric pickup truck called the Nikola Badger with a maximum range of 600 miles at a yet-unnamed truck maker’s manufacturing facilities and with the other truck maker’s certified parts. Read more...
18 Feb DOT’s Elaine Chao Announces $8.9 Million in Grants for Tribal Nations Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao recently announced that $8.9 million in grant funding will be dedicated to improving highway safety in tribal lands. Read more...
18 Feb Port Association Critical of Proposed Funding Cuts American Association of Port Authorities is criticizing President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget because of what the association says are the cuts to funding for the nation’s ports. Read more...
18 Feb January Tonnage Up 0.8% Compared to 2019 Truck tonnage on a seasonally adjusted basis rose 0.8% in January compared with year-ago levels, according to American Trucking Associations’ For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index, which was released Feb. 18. Read more...